high means better performance.
I am using the sequential reading
How VFS takes decision on whether to turn on readahead?
On 10/24/08, Mulyadi Santosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:52 AM, pradeepkumar soman
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > Anybody please tell me who is actually setting the readahead flag?
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> I think it sits between VFS and filesystem.
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> > Actually what is the difference between linux-2.6.15 and
> > linux-2.6.23 in terms of readahead. My file system read performance is
> very
> > high in linux-2.6.23 compared to
> > linux-2.6.15. Is this due to readahead implementation change?
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> what do you mean by high? do you mean it's better?
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> And how do you read the file ? 100% sequential? stride read?
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> regards,
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> Mulyadi.
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